"CISA Urges Patch of Windows Remote Code Execution TCP/IP Flaw, DoS Risk"

The Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has advised organizations to apply the patch released for a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability discovered in the Microsoft Windows Transmission Control (TCP)/IP stack handling Internet Control Message Protocol version 6 (ICMPv6) Router Advertisement packets. The exploitation of this flaw could allow attackers to execute code on a victim's server or client as well as launch Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. This article continues to discuss the potential abuse and impact of the Windows RCE TCP/IP flaw in addition to other security vulnerabilities highlighted by Microsoft this month. 

HealthITSecurity reports "CISA Urges Patch of Windows Remote Code Execution TCP/IP Flaw, DoS Risk"

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